chapter 22 vocabulary

12345678910111213141516
Across
  1. 2. a Muslim place of worship.
  2. 5. Mesopotamia arose in a valley between two rivers. These rivers were Tigris and Euphrates. In fact, the word Mesopotamia in Greek means, 'the land between rivers'.
  3. 6. western Saudi Arabia, located in the Ṣirāt Mountains, inland from the Red Sea coast.
  4. 8. the larger of the two main branches of Islam, which differs from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna, its conception of religious leadership, and its acceptance of the first three caliphs.
  5. 9. an adherent of the Shia branch of Islam.
  6. 11. the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
  7. 13. an organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians; it recognized the state of Israel in 1993 and Israel granted Palestinians autonomy in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Abbreviation: PLO.
  8. 15. Wall a wall in Jerusalem where Jews, on certain occasions, assemble for prayer and lamentation: traditionally believed to be the remains of the western wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70.
  9. 16. the monotheistic religion of the Jewish people.
Down
  1. 1. a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.
  2. 3. relating to or denoting a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
  3. 4. of the Rock Islam. a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which Muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God: built on the site of the Jewish Temple.
  4. 7. a member of a mainly Islamic people living in parts of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran, and eastern Syria.
  5. 10. The Taliban is a brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s. The word Taliban comes from tālib, "student" in Arabic, as the group was started by Pakistani religious school students in the mid-1990s.
  6. 12. translates to “praiseworthy” and links directly to the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad. This name can hold reverent weight to followers of Islam, who can share it with family members as a way of commemorating their commitment to their religion.
  7. 14. aims to regulate the supply of oil in order to set the price on the world market.